Maybe I should have voted for Velvets, but another good connection to Marquee Moon.
― dow, Monday, 21 January 2013 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
Some of these aren't even the best albums by those particular artists. But Faith really is one of my favorite albums. Pretty impressed to see it here.
― (hcnuL dlO) * (Old Lunch), Monday, 21 January 2013 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
Faith owns.
― Ulna (Nicole), Monday, 21 January 2013 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
Faith vs Minutemen....
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 05:14 (eleven years ago) link
vs Marquee Moon
this list is amazing
Because it's so perverse, right? Television vs Minutemen right now (prob Television) but I'd want to listen to the James Brown, Sly, Aretha, and Al Green albums first. II is easily in my bottom half of Zep albums. Great basslines though.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 05:42 (eleven years ago) link
it just feels like a list of favorites by someone with genuine taste, but who first got into music through '80s college radio stuff, then explored the classic rock canon but still has huge gaps. the depeche mode blurb should talk about how this album totally got them through their first break-up and the neil blurb should note they haven't heard rust never sleeps yet and don't really dig after the gold rush
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 06:33 (eleven years ago) link
i mean it's actually kind of awesome if this list was crafted by a group of people rather than one person, though it's hard to fathom what sensibility they were trying to project
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 06:35 (eleven years ago) link
This list is kinda great in that in no way presages the pop trends that will shape the 90s and completely reshape the "dialectic" of what makes pop music records great. I mean, what list in the 2000/2010s would deign "Ocean Rain" or "Faith" as one of the greatest records of all time?
― Frobisher the (Viceroy), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 06:41 (eleven years ago) link
Also very strange they picked LZ II as opposed to III or IV.
― Frobisher the (Viceroy), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 06:42 (eleven years ago) link
this is basically all the stuff i loved in my early '20s. picking 'fresh' instead of the more obvious sly choices is kind of a cool surprise. probably listen to the smiths one the most out of any of these.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 07:03 (eleven years ago) link
Black Celebration, natch.
it just feels like a list of favorites by someone with genuine taste, but who first got into music through '80s college radio stuff, then explored the classic rock canon but still has huge gaps.
this is otm
― Influential Acid Jazz Pioneer (crüt), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 07:07 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 2 February 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
'steve mcqueen' (aka 'two wheels good') for me
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Saturday, 2 February 2013 00:07 (eleven years ago) link
somewhat influential on destroyer's 2011 album 'kaputt', iirc bejar's list of inspirations correctly...
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Saturday, 2 February 2013 00:08 (eleven years ago) link
this is quite a likeable list for a change, anyway The Belle Album 200 per cent no question, JB & the Stones & the VU and the Minutemen slugging it out for second
― Hermann Hesher (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 2 February 2013 00:15 (eleven years ago) link
random JB album to choose - hardly his best, and full of all that fake audience noise and weird edits
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 2 February 2013 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 3 February 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link